If you are a scientist or engineer who uses simulation in your work, HLRS offers a comprehensive training program focused on giving you the skills to program and operate highly parallel computing clusters confidently and effectively. Taught by experienced HPC professionals, our courses supplement your research discipline-specific expertise by providing the practical knowledge necessary to operate in a high-performance computing environment.
For Professionals / Industry
If you are interested in courses for professionals that can be completed in parallel with your normal job responsibilities, please have a look at the Supercomputing Academy described below.
Fields of instruction
HLRS training courses concentrate on the disciplines below:
- Click on the links to browse a detailed list of specific upcoming related courses in each field.
- For some themes, a list of subtopics sorted by level (beginners', intermediate, advanced, community) is available.
- If the subtopics are hidden, you may expand them with a click on "more".
In addition, HLRS organizes Scientific Conferences and Workshops focusing on applications of high-performance computing and methods for improving computing performance.
Target Audience
Our training program addresses the needs of students at the bachelor's, master's, and doctoral levels, as well as postdoctoral researchers and industry professionals who use high-performance computing in their work.
Classroom and Online Training Courses
Active since 1998, HLRS's classroom training program is among the most extensive and experienced in Europe in the field of high-performance computing. The program is operated in collaboration with the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing, Germany's hosting organization for the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE).
Many of HLRS's classroom courses are held in our state-of-the-art training facility, located on the University of Stuttgart's Vaihingen campus. In addition, we cooperate with HPC centers that offer courses at other locations across Germany and elsewhere in Europe to share our expertise with a wider audience of HPC users.
Since 2020 we have also held synchronous online courses that take place live via videoconferencing software. Our online courses enable interaction among participants and instructors, and make it possible to ask questions in a similar way to classroom courses.
In most units, the key to success is the combination of teaching and hands-on exercises. The exercises are typically programmed in groups of two participants on pre-installed systems in the classroom. In online courses, participants solve the exercises in small groups ("breakout rooms"). Here, the exercises are completed either on the participants' systems or on a remote cluster.
Course instruction takes place in German and/or English.
A list of all upcoming courses can be found here, a list of past training events can be found in the archive.
Online Course Recordings / Self-Study
HLRS offers free online course content focusing on topics in parallel computing. These materials, based on selected classroom and online courses, include recordings and exercises that can be used for asynchronous self-study. Learn more.
The Supercomputing-Akademie: HPC Continuing Education for Industry
The Supercomputing Academy offers exclusive online courses, specifically tailored to industry and the needs of professionals in the areas of HPC, AI, Big Data and Data Analytics.
The courses extend over 3 to 6 weeks with approx. 10h of learning content per week. You will be trained by experts of the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), will receive direct support, have access to their knowledge and the exclusive opportunity to ask them all your questions, learn from their combined decades of experience and best practices as well as to network with other participants in the industry.
Using a modular, blended learning course format, the Supercomputing Academy’s courses incorporate the best features of classroom and online learning. All of the course content is provided online, alongside regularly scheduled live online classes with experts (once a week), making it convenient for you as a professional or someone trying to break into the industry to develop new skills in parallel to your normal job responsibilities.
We place special emphasis on the close integration of theory and practice, which is why in most of our courses you can complete the practical parts on our training cluster in a productive environment without any risk or any extra costs.
Every participant of a course will receive a confirmation of participation while participants who complete the course content, successfully submit the exercises and then pass the exam will be awarded a certificate on top of that. Upon the successful completion of multiple modules, participants can also earn special certifications, including the title of “HPC User”, “HPC Admin”, “HPC Developer” or even "HPC Expert", which can be extremely helpful when looking for new job opportunities or trying to score a higher position within your company. Click here.
Other HPC Training Opportunities
Additional course offerings in high-performance computing can be found at the following websites:
- Gauss Centre of Supercomputing (GCS) Event List
- German HPC Calendar (organized by Gauss-Allianz in cooperation with all German HPC Centers)
and long list including short abstracts - PRACE training information
- Further (beginners') courses in the state of Baden-Württemberg: courses / overview / project bwhpc-c5
- Courses of the three German federal HPC centers: HLRS, JSC and LRZ.
- CoE Training Registry
- EuroCC coordinates the National Competence Centres, which provide HPC, HPDA and AI training.
- High-Performance Computing in Europe is the portal for European HPC services with a list of training events.
- An HLRS list of centers providing HPC Training in Europe & PRACE
Archive and Handouts
Lists of our previous summer/winter schools on parallel programming can be found here: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009-1998
Lists of our previous summer/winter schools on Fortran, C++, ... can be found here: (since 2010, the language courses are included in the lists above) 2009-2006
GCS and HLRS also provide yearly curricula as handouts & posters:
